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Summary[edit]

This is the cover of the 2009 issue of Newsweek magazine, resembling the famous headline 1966 Time magazine "Is God Dead?" cover. I believe that this low resolution image is fair use in a Wikipedia article about one particular issue of a magazine, namely the latter.

Source[edit]

The image can be found at http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/pub/s?f=PRN/prnpub&page=1&xtag=PRN-prnphotos-80274&redir=detail&TAG_ID=prnphotos080274 It is the copyright of Newsweek.

Fair use rationale for Is God Dead?[edit]

It is believed that this image is subject to fair use in the article Is God Dead? because:

1. This image is an image of a magazine cover story which illustrates the enduring cultural impact of the cover story which is the subject of the article.
2. This is a low-resolution image.
3. It does not limit the copyright owner's rights to market or sell the work in any way.
4. The image is being used in an informative way and should not detract from the original work.
5. No free or public domain images are available as this magazine cover is still under copyright.

Licensing[edit]

This image is of a magazine cover, and the copyright for it is most likely held by either the publisher of the magazine or the individual contributors who worked on the cover depicted. It is believed that the use of low-resolution images of magazine covers to illustrate the publication of the issue of the magazine in question with the publication name either visible on the image itself or written in the image description above, on the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, qualifies as fair use under United States copyright law. Any other uses of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content for more information.

Note: If the image depicts a person or persons on the cover, it is not acceptable to use the image in the article of the person or persons depicted on the cover, unless used to directly illustrate a point about the publication of the image. Use of the image merely to depict a person or persons in the image will be removed. Fair use true